I have an older motherboard and I need a new one. I've read through the forums a lot and there is a lot of talk about how the KT400, KT333, and KT233 all have the same performance. If you were to buy a chipset for the best bandwidth, not features (IE USB 2.0, Serial ATA, BLEH BLEH) which do you think is the best chipset? I'm thinking between NVIDIA 415 or KT333. Please help me out!

Thanks



<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by o0ospunkieo0o on 09/08/02 04:34 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

I would wait, hopefully sometime this month as planned nvidia will release the nforce2 chipset. Undoubtly this will be the best performing chipset to date for the AXP, capable of dual channeling your DDR for improved memory thouroughput.

Nvidia still claims a launch date this month, maybe it will coincide with the release of AMD's 2700+ AXP with its "advanced front-side bus". That way nvidia would market the board as supporting this "new" bus and make it even more $$$. Though I currently doubt AMD's ability to get that chip out this month since the 2400 or 2600 aren't even available, so maybe next month for that chip... hopefully on time and this month for the board.

Otherwise, besides AGP 8x (currently doesn't do sh!t), ATA 133 (Which doesn't do sh!t either) and AGP 2.0 standards.. and other negligable features, the KT400 chipsets running DDR at 200Mhz x 2 = 400MHz offers little performance increases from the KT333 as the athlon XP is limited to the bandwidth of say PC2100 or 266.

When I get a new motherboard I was also planning on getting new memory modules as well. If I get the NVIDIA chipset do you think that it would really have better performance to get two memory modules over the one larger one?

Isn't Nforce2 already out?
http://www.tomshardware.com/mainbo [...] index.html

That's what the Nvidia 415 is. It's the Nforce2, but without the graphics card built in.<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by o0ospunkieo0o on 09/08/02 04:38 PM.</EM></FONT></P>